Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Women should be protected from anyone's exercise of unrighteous power... but then, so should every other living creature.

I flutter all ways, and fly in none.

To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever.

Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals.

It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge.